A 17-year-old guardian of the memories of recently deceased young people questions her purpose in the latest from National Book Award finalist McBride.

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16.10.2025

THE PROPHET OF LOST SOULS | Kirkus Reviews

Slade’s thriller offers a meditation on the perils of combining technology, capitalism, and faith.

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16.10.2025

THE WAYFINDER | Kirkus Reviews

The Polynesian islands in the South Pacific are transformed by this historical epic into a region at once otherworldly and recognizable.

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16.10.2025

Lessons In Coming and Going or Neti-Neti (Not This Not That) | Kirkus Reviews

A man wanders the East searching for experience, enlightenment, and good hash in this luminous memoir.

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16.10.2025

DEAD ENDS! | Kirkus Reviews

In the vein of their Plague-Busters! (2023), Fitzharris and Teal round up wild examples of medical trial and error.

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16.10.2025

THE HEART HITCH | Kirkus Reviews

In Woodford’s novel, a recently fired philosophy professor and her farmhand neighbor form an unexpected bond during a cross-country road trip.

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16.10.2025

AND THEY WALK ON | Kirkus Reviews

A child grapples with the strange largeness of grief.

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16.10.2025

THE UNDERACHIEVER | Kirkus Reviews

In Price’s YA SF novel, a boarding school student in a near-future of self-driving vehicles and computer automation learns that AIs are plotting against humanity.

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16.10.2025

GRABTOWN | Kirkus Reviews

Two sisters discover a startling manuscript in their late mother’s house that has devastating ties to their present in Blanchard’s thriller.

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16.10.2025

MINOR BLACK FIGURES | Kirkus Reviews

A painter struggles to reconcile identity, money, art, love, and sex.

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16.10.2025

THE JAZZ BARN | Kirkus Reviews

How jazz found a new audience in the Berkshires.

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16.10.2025

TWO BULLETS IN A BAYOU | Kirkus Reviews

Black’s hardboiled detective novel, part of his Erica Banks series, features a contract killer and a baseball-fixing scandal.

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16.10.2025

JOYRIDE | Kirkus Reviews

A celebration of a supremely accomplished writing life, with a few lumps along the way.

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16.10.2025

THE TURKEY IS NOT THE ONLY THING GETTING ROASTED | Kirkus Reviews

Okine lampoons American Thanksgiving traditions one state at a time in this work of cultural commentary.

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15.10.2025

ROCK PAPER INCISORS | Kirkus Reviews

Old friends return with new wards in this beloved series.

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15.10.2025

DEVILS' ADVOCATES | Kirkus Reviews

Influencers of a different kind.

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15.10.2025

RACE TO THE SOUTH POLE | Kirkus Reviews

One geographic pole, two competing polar narratives.

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15.10.2025

THE WORMHOLE SOCIETY | Kirkus Reviews

In Levy’s darkly comic novel, a depraved man at the end of his rope stumbles upon a secret society that allows him to travel through alternate dimensions.

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15.10.2025

THE NAMELESS DEAD | Kirkus Reviews

Set on the Greek island of Chios, Serafim’s noir mystery explores the European migrant crisis through the eyes of a world-weary but tenacious police inspector.

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15.10.2025

ADVENTURES OF MAX SPITZKOPF | Kirkus Reviews

“King of Detectives” Max Spitzkopf stars in this lively collection of rare early-20th-century detective stories, translated from the Yiddish.

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15.10.2025

THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL | Kirkus Reviews

Parrish’s scrapbook collection of stories, still life photos, and diaristic drawings depict an artistic mind in motion.

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15.10.2025

HE'S SO POSSESSED WITH ME | Kirkus Reviews

Colin Ong doesn’t like his best friend Ren Hsu’s new boyfriend.

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15.10.2025

LOADING | Kirkus Reviews

An alien intelligence invades the body of a virtual-pornography performer in Klarxon’s body-horror novel.

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15.10.2025

THE RAVENOUS SKY | Kirkus Reviews

Teenage survivors in a world ravaged by electromagnetic dragons dubbed the blitz split up for separate missions in this sequel to The Shadow Road (2024).

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15.10.2025

THE BUZZ ON WILD BEES | Kirkus Reviews

Honeybees get most of the attention but make up only a small fraction of the number of bee species on our planet; a salute to the rest is in order.

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15.10.2025

GOD, THE SCIENCE, THE EVIDENCE | Kirkus Reviews

A duo of French mathematicians makes the scientific case for God in this nonfiction book.

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15.10.2025

UP IN THE BLUE SKY | Kirkus Reviews

Vertically oriented pictures presented in a long rectangular volume hint at just how high the sky goes.

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15.10.2025

THE DO-OVER | Kirkus Reviews

Between friends, classes, soccer, and founding a new after-school club, Frost Middle School student Zoe starts to feel the pressure of biting off more than she can chew.

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15.10.2025

AND TO ALL A GOOD BITE | Kirkus Reviews

How better to celebrate the holidays than by taking in a homeless dog and solving multiple murders?

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15.10.2025

AN OCEAN APART | Kirkus Reviews

A poor girl sneaks onto a dating show in hopes of winning a cash prize.

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15.10.2025

FIGHT LIKE HELL | Kirkus Reviews

Sierra chronicles his career and life, including a harrowing struggle with Covid-19.

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15.10.2025

THE TEAR COLLECTOR | Kirkus Reviews

Bravery and hope fuel this timely climate-fiction fantasy.

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15.10.2025

MY LIFE AS AN INTERNET NOVEL | Kirkus Reviews

A girl is suddenly dropped into an internet romance novel in this translated work from South Korea, which was originally published online.

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15.10.2025

OUR ISLANDS | Kirkus Reviews

A select but globe-spanning tour of islands large and small, with particular focus on distinctive wildlife and natural features.

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14.10.2025

MARCIA FARRAR AND MR. WHISKEY TIME-TRAVEL TO 1997 | Kirkus Reviews

A middle-aged woman frustrated with her life learns that change isn’t always good in Somers’ whimsical time-travel tale.

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14.10.2025

THE PICASSO HEIST | Kirkus Reviews

Patterson’s latest co-authored thriller follows an enterprising brother-and-sister team who are determined to steal a recently discovered Picasso painting from the Echelon auction house and replace it with a forgery.

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14.10.2025

MISCALCULATED RISKS | Kirkus Reviews

Cooper offers a memoir of successfully pursuing passions.

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DEATH AND WINE | Kirkus Reviews

DERRICK ADAMS | Kirkus Reviews

THE FIVE WOLVES | Kirkus Reviews

THE LEAVING ROOM | Kirkus Reviews

THE PROPHET OF LOST SOULS | Kirkus Reviews

THE WAYFINDER | Kirkus Reviews

Lessons In Coming and Going or Neti-Neti (Not This Not That) | Kirkus Reviews

DEAD ENDS! | Kirkus Reviews

THE HEART HITCH | Kirkus Reviews

AND THEY WALK ON | Kirkus Reviews

THE UNDERACHIEVER | Kirkus Reviews

GRABTOWN | Kirkus Reviews

MINOR BLACK FIGURES | Kirkus Reviews

THE JAZZ BARN | Kirkus Reviews

TWO BULLETS IN A BAYOU | Kirkus Reviews

JOYRIDE | Kirkus Reviews

THE TURKEY IS NOT THE ONLY THING GETTING ROASTED | Kirkus Reviews

ROCK PAPER INCISORS | Kirkus Reviews

DEVILS' ADVOCATES | Kirkus Reviews

RACE TO THE SOUTH POLE | Kirkus Reviews

THE WORMHOLE SOCIETY | Kirkus Reviews

THE NAMELESS DEAD | Kirkus Reviews

ADVENTURES OF MAX SPITZKOPF | Kirkus Reviews

THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL | Kirkus Reviews

HE'S SO POSSESSED WITH ME | Kirkus Reviews

LOADING | Kirkus Reviews

THE RAVENOUS SKY | Kirkus Reviews

THE BUZZ ON WILD BEES | Kirkus Reviews

GOD, THE SCIENCE, THE EVIDENCE | Kirkus Reviews

UP IN THE BLUE SKY | Kirkus Reviews

THE DO-OVER | Kirkus Reviews

AND TO ALL A GOOD BITE | Kirkus Reviews

AN OCEAN APART | Kirkus Reviews

FIGHT LIKE HELL | Kirkus Reviews

THE TEAR COLLECTOR | Kirkus Reviews

MY LIFE AS AN INTERNET NOVEL | Kirkus Reviews

OUR ISLANDS | Kirkus Reviews

MARCIA FARRAR AND MR. WHISKEY TIME-TRAVEL TO 1997 | Kirkus Reviews

THE PICASSO HEIST | Kirkus Reviews

MISCALCULATED RISKS | Kirkus Reviews

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